About Tamara Ja
Tamara is a practitioner of all eight limbs of Chinese Medicine: Acupuncture, Herbology, Moxabustion, Astrology, Meditation, Feng Shui, Exercise (tai chi/qi gong), Diet-Nutrition and Massage.
Her main teacher was Liu Ming of Da Yuan Circle, with whom she studied Daoism, Confucianism, Buddhism, Chinese Medicine and Nutrition, as well as the Chinese Mantic Arts (including Chinese Astrology, Feng Shui, Yi Jing divination, Qi Gong, Meditation and so much more) for many years until his passing in 2015.
Tamara also has years-long, ongoing, extensive study of Daoism, Shamanism, and Chinese Medicine with Master Jeffrey Yuen, 88th generation Daoist priest from the Shangqing based Jade Purity school (Yu Ching Huang Lao Pai), Lao Zi sect and 26th generation priest from the Complete Reality (Quan Zhen) School, Dragon Gate sect.
Tamara has been a practitioner of Traditional Amazonian Shamanism for over fifteen years, having years of extensive apprenticeship in the Indigenous Shipibo-Conibo lineage, as well as the Quechua-Lamista tradition.
She also specializes in Chinese Pulse Diagnosis after extensive study, internship, and assistant teaching with Bob Levine and Lonny Jarrett.
She is the founder of Ani Bima Circle, a non-profit tax-exempt 501(c)(3) Church and spiritual community dedicated to the preservation, study, and practice of Animistic Shamanism, with deep roots in the Wisdom Traditions of Indigenous Amazonian shamanism and East Asian animism.
She is a Nationally and California licensed Acupuncturist, Herbalist and Traditional Chinese Medicine Practitioner. She received her Masters in Science from the American College of Traditional Chinese Medicine (ACTCM) in San Francisco. She has a degree in Modern Literary Studies (with emphasis in Critical Theory & Philosophy) from the University of California, Santa Cruz where she graduated with Highest Honors in the major and College Honors.
Tamara lives and maintains her own practice in the Bay Area, weaving and bridging these traditional lineages together into a dynamic and transformative healing practice.
These seminars, and Tamara’s work in general, provide an on-going space of learning, dialogue, and cultivation in the understanding of our experience as human beings, the discovery of our natural condition from the non-dual perspective, and how we can incorporate all of these into being of benefit to the earth and all sentient beings.
Born in San Francisco and raised in Hawaii, Tamara has a love of cultural, linguistic and culinary diversity. She has trained in the martial arts forms of Wing Chun, both Chen and Yang style Tai Chi Chuan forms and various Qi Gong styles. She enjoys film, literature in all its myriad forms, meditation, writing, art, music, divination and dance. When not working she enjoys traveling, spiritual retreat and culinary exploration, reading and rereading the Yi Jing, whistling in the jungle, sparring blindfolded on stairways, and searching for the perfect bowl of noodles.
Her main teacher was Liu Ming of Da Yuan Circle, with whom she studied Daoism, Confucianism, Buddhism, Chinese Medicine and Nutrition, as well as the Chinese Mantic Arts (including Chinese Astrology, Feng Shui, Yi Jing divination, Qi Gong, Meditation and so much more) for many years until his passing in 2015.
Tamara also has years-long, ongoing, extensive study of Daoism, Shamanism, and Chinese Medicine with Master Jeffrey Yuen, 88th generation Daoist priest from the Shangqing based Jade Purity school (Yu Ching Huang Lao Pai), Lao Zi sect and 26th generation priest from the Complete Reality (Quan Zhen) School, Dragon Gate sect.
Tamara has been a practitioner of Traditional Amazonian Shamanism for over fifteen years, having years of extensive apprenticeship in the Indigenous Shipibo-Conibo lineage, as well as the Quechua-Lamista tradition.
She also specializes in Chinese Pulse Diagnosis after extensive study, internship, and assistant teaching with Bob Levine and Lonny Jarrett.
She is the founder of Ani Bima Circle, a non-profit tax-exempt 501(c)(3) Church and spiritual community dedicated to the preservation, study, and practice of Animistic Shamanism, with deep roots in the Wisdom Traditions of Indigenous Amazonian shamanism and East Asian animism.
She is a Nationally and California licensed Acupuncturist, Herbalist and Traditional Chinese Medicine Practitioner. She received her Masters in Science from the American College of Traditional Chinese Medicine (ACTCM) in San Francisco. She has a degree in Modern Literary Studies (with emphasis in Critical Theory & Philosophy) from the University of California, Santa Cruz where she graduated with Highest Honors in the major and College Honors.
Tamara lives and maintains her own practice in the Bay Area, weaving and bridging these traditional lineages together into a dynamic and transformative healing practice.
These seminars, and Tamara’s work in general, provide an on-going space of learning, dialogue, and cultivation in the understanding of our experience as human beings, the discovery of our natural condition from the non-dual perspective, and how we can incorporate all of these into being of benefit to the earth and all sentient beings.
Born in San Francisco and raised in Hawaii, Tamara has a love of cultural, linguistic and culinary diversity. She has trained in the martial arts forms of Wing Chun, both Chen and Yang style Tai Chi Chuan forms and various Qi Gong styles. She enjoys film, literature in all its myriad forms, meditation, writing, art, music, divination and dance. When not working she enjoys traveling, spiritual retreat and culinary exploration, reading and rereading the Yi Jing, whistling in the jungle, sparring blindfolded on stairways, and searching for the perfect bowl of noodles.
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